Media representatives are invited to participate in a teleconference with University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher Dr. Steven Zeisel, author of a study
examining an ingredient found in many shampoos and other personal care products
that appears to interfere with normal brain development.

Zeisel, Kenan Distinguished University Professor of nutrition in UNC's schools
of public health and medicine and associate dean for research in the School
of Public Health, has been traveling internationally and Thursday morning's
availability is his first opportunity to discuss this newly published research
with reporters.

The study is featured as the cover story in the August issue of the FASEB journal,
published by The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.

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Note: Reporters with questions about participating in the teleconference
should contact Ramona DuBose, communications director for the School of Public
Health, at (919) 966-7467 or rjdubose@email.unc.edu.